altars

英 [ˈɔːltəz]

美 [ˈɔltərz]

n.  (教堂、庙宇的)圣坛，祭坛，祭台
altar的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 祭坛；神坛
  Analtaris a holy table in a church or temple.
  1. ...the high altar at Chichester Cathedral.
     奇切斯特大教堂内的主祭坛
• PHRASE 作…的祭品；成为…的牺牲品
  If you say that someone or something issacrificed at the altarof another thing, you mean they suffer or are destroyed because of that thing.
  1. Napoleon's army was sacrificed on the altar of folly in the disastrous Russian campaign.
     在灾难性的俄国战役中，拿破仑的军队成了这一愚蠢之举的牺牲品。

双语例句

• Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.
  却要拆毁他们的祭坛，打碎他们的柱像，砍下他们的木偶。
• Abraham built altars for worship at places where God appeared to him.
  亚伯拉罕在祭坛边行礼拜之事，上帝显现于他的身前。
• And if you say to me, our hope is in the LORD our god; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?
  你若对我说，我们倚靠耶和华我们的神。希西家岂不是将神的丘坛，和祭坛废去，且对犹大和耶路撒冷的人说，你们当在这坛前敬拜吗？
• The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.
  因为以色列人背弃了你的约，毁坏了你的坛，用刀杀了你的先知，只剩下我一个人，他们还要寻索我的命。
• Some altars to pagan gods still remain.
  一些敬奉异教神灵的祭坛还保留着。
• Upon the altars rose the incense and bloomed the garlands.
  祭坛上的香烟袅袅上升，花环上的花朵鲜艳地开着。
• Dragon shrines and altars can still be seen in many parts of the far east.
  龙的神庙和神坛仍能在远东的许多地方看到。
• The altars were adorned with orange feathers, chrysanthemums and gold cloth.
  圣坛用橘黄色的羽毛，菊花和金线织物装饰着。
• When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains.
  好叫他们的子孙记得他们在高岗上，青绿树下和平原的山上，设立了祭坛和神木。
• He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.
  将他们祭司的骸骨烧在坛上，洁净了犹大和耶路撒冷。